From African rock paintings created 50-70,000 years ago during African migrations to the art of the Nile Valley and the Benin bronzes, much of African art has been claimed and controlled by European institutions governing the capitalization and exploitation of African art and artists. The Western art world has had a vested interest in African art since the European conquest of Africa when much of it was stolen. Incorporating evidence from books, essays, magazines, reports, interviews, and documentaries, this study shows that an operational Afrocentric approach to African art administration dismantles the exploitative agency of the Western art industry to initiate a liberation process from its artistic confines. It enhances how African artists, the community, and cultural representatives on the continent and throughout the diaspora view African artistry from a cultural perspective and free themselves from the control of an industry profiting from their works by defining them from a Eurocentric racist perspective. Cultivating a creative ecosystem that functions as an organizing method by executing Afrocentric infrastructure to demonstrate creative, economic, and social values establishes a culturally sensitive platform to develop the administration, accumulation, and pedagogies of African art. It will have an educational purpose that requires becoming conscious of African cultural history and the function of art. From this perspective, it is possible to develop a cultural identity and grounded analysis of the creativity of the African world and its value from the past to the future. / Africology and African American Studies

Cette thèse s’attache à mettre en lumière l’organisation du système des beaux-arts et les conditions de production des œuvres d’art en Espagne entre 1853 et 1898, autour de trois pôles principaux : Madrid, Barcelone et Séville. Dans cette période de crise politique et économique, généralement envisagée sous le prisme du paradigme du retard ou de l’échec, la désillusion des artistes fut une réalité. Loin de conduire à la passivité, elle engendra un désir de « régénération » culturelle, de nombreuses controverses sur la manière d’encourager les arts ainsi que tout un jeu de comparaisons et de regards portés vers l’étranger. Ce bouillonnement intellectuel fut à l’origine d’un renouveau des structures de promotion des arts se traduisant par la création de musées, d’expositions, de concours ou par la concession de pensions. L’analyse des missions artistiques de la Maison royale, du ministère du Développement, des députations, des associations artistiques et des sociétés économiques des amis du pays s’appuie sur des études de cas et révèle les acteurs à l’œuvre : petits ou hauts fonctionnaires, artistes méconnus ou renommés, hommes politiques. Fondé sur un vaste travail de recherche en archives, ce parcours dans le paysage des arts espagnols permet de mieux comprendre quels furent les objectifs, les conséquences et les spécificités de l’encouragement public et privé de l’art, d’un point de vue régional et national, dans un contexte de construction de l’État-Nation. / This dissertation aims to bring to light the organization of the fine arts system and the conditions under which works of art were produced in Spain between 1853 and 1898, centering on three leading cities: Madrid, Barcelona, and Seville. During this period of political and economic crisis, usually understood through the lens of the paradigm of Spanish backwardness or failure, the artists’ disenchantment was considerable. However, far from driving them into passive resignation, this spurred a desire for cultural "regeneration," born of countless debates over the way in which the arts should be supported and a keen interest in comparison with what was happening abroad. This intellectual exuberance led to a renewal of the institutions promoting the arts, giving way to the creation of museums, exhibitions, contests, and grants. The analysis of the artistic missions of the royal household, the Ministry of Development, diputaciones (provincial governments), societies of artists, and the various Economic Societies of Friends of the Country, relies on case studies and reveals the agents at work: senior and junior civil servants, not-known or famous artists, and politicians. Rooted in broad archival research, this journey through the world of Spanish art enriches our understanding of the goals, consequences, and specific features of the public and private support of the arts on a regional and national scale and within the context of the construction of the nation-state.

This research focuses on agencification and quangocratisation (AQ) through a comparison of the experiences of South Korea and the UK. Although a number of studies of AQ have been produced recently, these reforms remain inadequately understood. Since AQ involves the structural disaggregation of administrative units from existing departments, executive agencies and quangos have distinct characteristics which are quite different from ordinary core departments. There are a number of factors which influence these changes; and this thesis explores nine existing theories which are available to explain these phenomena. Case studies are presented of Tate Modern in the UK and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), which are carefully analysed to examine the validity of those nine arguments. Although cultural agencies, which show some unique features, have become increasingly an essential part of the national economy, they have scarcely been researched from the viewpoint of public policy. This thesis endeavours to explore distinctive characteristics of this policy area; and moreover, it examines the diverse variables which have an impact on policy formation and its results through the process of comparison of arguments. The major tasks of this thesis are to investigate the applicability of the nine arguments and to weigh their merits. As a corollary of this comprehensiveness, it examines the whole public sectors of both countries, in order to show the broader picture and to understand the processes of changes and their backgrounds. More profoundly, similarities and differences between both countries are compared from both macro and micro perspectives. At the same time, the results of AQ are analysed through the comparison of outputs or outcomes before and after these changes, with a view to exploring whether their rationales are appropriate. Furthermore, it also examines the institutional constraints which influence not only the change of agencies but also their performances. Besides which, it seeks to find strategies for overcoming these constraints. This thesis adopts systematic and comprehensive approaches regarding basic concepts and data. It draws on theories of comparative research, the scope of the public sector, the classification and analysis of agencies and quangos, and theories underlying the detailed components of each argument and epistemological assumptions. Therefore, it suggests various aspects which enable us to broaden our understanding of the changes within the public sector; and to generate practical understanding to inform real world reform.